Welcome to Procrastination Station! @tpolisher - Tumblr Blog

veritasetvino

Fine, yeah. Fine.

tpolisher

#everything is fine #let them eat cake

my-dailydreams

#the hills are alive #oh goody

bowlby4

tpolisher

👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

#epic use of this meme!#‘murica #George Washington #annoyed Ben Affleck meme

🌊🙌🏽🌊

#Miss Celia leaves mister #the color purple #we aren't angry enough #BLUE WAVE #our founding fathers are rolling in their graves #orange stain in our history

tpolisher

#murica #happy 4th of july

gamechangershow

#happy 4th of july #murica

sadiejay88

July 2, 1979, The day The Funk died. RIP

tpolisher

LOL! Check out one of my very first posts around 16 years ago! 😂

💬 0 🔁 6 ❤️ 1 · The funk!

#the mighty boosh #the funk #I’m old Greggggggggg #I’ve been on this site a long time holy moly

kcggggg

We passed it a couple of days ago, but it has been 10 years since the strip "On Fire" which became the meme "This is Fine" was posted originally on my webcomic Gunshow.

My thoughts on the meme come and go, ebb and flow, and change on a dime depending on how annoyed I am that day. I should be so lucky to get to do all this for a living thanks to what it has become and helped me do, but it's hard to see the forest through the trees and it feels like I'm constantly lost in the woods anyway.

Still. It's relatable! You might use it in your office job if you have one! A lot of people do. It has kind of lost a bit of luster for me when I am still a working cartoonist trying to make something bigger and better and people just like this thing you dashed off for a comic on a Wednesday. Other artists might know that feeling. It's what we all as creators often deal with.

This strip has made me comprehend the idea of one's perception of art. I am bored more often than not, of my own art. I try to make something that excites me, makes me laugh, but sometimes you have a schedule and just need to pop something out now. That has helped me get quicker and let go of precious ideas, but it has also proven to be a double edged sword when the world at large has access to your work.

When a work gets as big as this has, is it still yours? Not talking about copyright and legal stuff. It says something larger that everyone can feel and relate to. I did not go through what Matt Furie has, but there is a similar level of control you just Don't Have anymore when your work becomes a meme on this level. I got lucky being able to ride it out a little. But it's not perfectly in my grasp. There's plenty of bootleggers and grifters who just use memes as freely as the air they breath.

But I've always tried to move forward. I rarely think about my older work or care if it's even easily available online. I'm no historian, I'm just the jester who's makin' up a story or tellin' a joke. But I've been forced time and time again with these 6 panels, to be the party pooper, gate-keeper, girlboss, etc and just to get people to recognize there are artists behind these drawings online. These memes we share.

And it feels like it's only getting harder. The best I can ask for is for people to simply forget, but the dog persists. So I do what I can and try to keep in good humor and be thankful that I can still do what I do for a living.

so anyway buy some merch. bye

tpolisher

A little more about this famous meme! One of my favorite art pieces of all time!